Stories from Wednesday, November 10, 1993

Another milestone passed recently in Jackson with the sale of the Lee-Rowan company, and the retirement of its founder and long-time sparkplug, St. Louis industrialist Desmond Lee. Mr. Lee is a remarkable man whose career in business is equally remarkable...

This past week marked the retirement of a Cape Girardeau industrialist and civic leader from a long and successful career in the business world. We refer to Joe Gambill, the only plant manager Biokyowa had during its first decade here. Joe often remarked that after living many places, Cape was the only locale where "I sank my roots."...

JACKSON -- The Jackson school board got its first look at the district's policy and procedure guidelines for dealing with dangerous weapons in the schoolroom Tuesday. The board also heard a report on the status of a proposed girl's varsity soccer team and got an update on the bidding process for the new middle school...

As drugs and their corresponding social ills reach deeper into schools, educators play a key role in a community's battle against substance abuse. Bill Askew, a crisis prevention counselor, is coordinator of the drug-free school program in the Cape Girardeau School District. Askew said the district has taken on drug education with a variety of programs that start as early as first grade...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education should consider asking voters for a new, basic elementary building, several parents suggested at a forum Tuesday night. For the most part, the sixth through eighth grade middle school concept, or a sixth-grade center at May Greene, received negative reactions from parents at the second of three open forums the school board is holding...

The first public wrangling over how to pick a riverboat gambling vendor occurred Tuesday night during a joint meeting of the Cape Girardeau City Council and the Airport Advisory Board. Mayor Gene Rhodes recommended appointing a seven-person committee to establish a format for companies that want to make a bid to the city. Then Rhodes named seven people he would like to see on the committee...

A drop in enrollment at Southeast Missouri State University this fall will result in a $500,000 to $600,000 shortfall in tuition revenue, school officials said Tuesday. "We're trying to make up the tuition loss," Southeast President Kala Stroup said...

Religiosity and media coverage basically had no effect on the outcome of the recent riverboat gambling election, according to a survey conducted by two assistant professors of mass communications at Southeast Missouri State University. James Dufek and Tamara Baldwin revealed their findings during a colloquium attended by about 50 students and townspeople Tuesday night at the University Center...

By the time a young adult enters college, it's probably too late to begin efforts to alert him to the harmful effects of drug abuse. But that doesn't mean the university shouldn't be at the fore in the battle against substance abuse. Edward Leoni, chairman of the department of health and leisure at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, said the drug war must be waged on many fronts...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Michael Eugene Matney, 19, of Mound City, died Monday, Nov. 8, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 11, 1974, in Charleston, Mo., son of Herman E. and Linda L. Rodgers Matney. Matney was employed at Service Master Industries in Cairo. He was a member of Mound City Fire and Rescue Department, and attended Cairo Baptist Church...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Margaret R. Bouchet, 84, of Cairo died Nov. 9, 1993, at Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Ill. She was born in Morehouse on Nov. 24, 1908, the daughter of the late Edward and Katherine Miller Rubenacker. She was a bookkeeper for Elias True Value Shopping Center in Cairo before her retirement...

JACKSON - Hazel A. Washburn, 74, of 1023 Kent in Jackson, died Tuesday Nov. 9, 1993 at the Lutheran Home. She was born Jan. 20, 1919 in Atlanta, Ill., the daughter of Albert A. and Hattie Rhodes Fulk. She was married Dec. 30, 1938 to Charles W. Washburn, Jr., who survives...

Wilfred Colon, 74, 1004 Sturdivant, died Sunday, Nov. 7, 1993, at his home. He was born Feb. 14, 1919, in Humphrey, Ark., son of Jessie and Cathrine Swoopes Colon. He and the former Louise Ayers were married Nov. 5, 1953, in Cape Girardeau. Colon had been a quarryman and foreman at Marquette Cement, worked at Modern Roofing and Pyramid Roofing, and worked 19 years for Drury Construction Co., retiring in 1977...

SCOTT CITY -- Mattie Lou Bruce, 90, of Scott City, died Monday, Nov. 8, 1993, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. She was born March 13, 1903, in Tennessee, daughter of Robert and Lena Brake. She and Joseph Wheeler Bruce were married Aug. 20, 1920. He died Nov. 17, 1974...

MARBLE HILL -- Funeral service for Johnetta Royal of Marble Hill will be held at 1 p.m. today at Liley Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Gene Robbins will officiate, with burial in Grassy Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Royal, 55, died Monday, Nov. 8, 1993, at her home...

ANNA, Ill. -- Florence T. "Tommie" Sullivan of Anna died Monday, Nov. 8, 1993, at City Care Center. She was born May 4, 1901, in Boscobel, Wis., daughter of Frank S. and Gertrude Johnson Tuffley. Private funeral service will be held in Boscobel. Announcement courtesy of Crain Funeral Home in Anna...

ALTENBURG -- Edgar O. Palisch, 85, of Altenburg, died Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 20, 1907, at Altenburg, son of Adolph C. and Frieda Jungclaus Palisch. He and Nelda R. Perr were married June 16, 1946...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- James A. "Jim" Wallace, 88, of Jonestoro, died Monday, Nov. 8, 1993, at the VA Medical Center in Marion. He was born May 13, 1905, in Equility, son of Charles and Mary Davis Wallace. He and Violet Slankard Simmons were married in 1941. She died Oct. 15, 1980...

Daughter to Nikki Seabaugh and Jason Abernathy, Sedgewickville Route 2, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:02 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1993. Name, Mercedes Nikole Abernathy. Weight, 8 pounds 5 ounces. First child. Miss Seabaugh is the daughter of Judy Seabaugh of Sedgewickville. She is employed at Tri-Con Industries. Abernathy is also employed at Tri-Con, and is the son of Dave and Sherry Ash of Sedgewickville...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- James A. "Jim" Wallace, 88, of Jonesboro, died Monday, Nov. 8, 1993, at the VA Medical Center in Marion. He was born May 13, 1905, in Equality, son of Charles and Mary Davis Wallace. He and Violet Slankard Simmons were married in 1941. She died Oct. 15, 1980...

The long-awaited book was hand-delivered to me on Oct. 16, three days after the publication date. My waning attention-span leaped to an all-time high at the instant, and I've noticed no downturn since. Even the soft white cover betokens style. Never mind the hidden redundancy in "It's here!" James Kilpatrick sensed my joy would equal his as soon as I held his brainchild in my arms. I held it close, and turned my head so the tear would miss the child...

JACKSON -- The Southeast Missouri State University Farm in cooperation with the University of Missouri Extension will present a day and a half hands-on milkers' school, Nov. 22-23 in Jackson. Titled "Inside the Parlor," the school is designed to educate people who milk cows, dairymen, and others in the dairy industry about ways to prevent problems and increase profits by using the most modern milking procedures. The parlor is the name for the milking barn...

"When you take a look at the people who favor the North American Free Trade Agreement, you have to know it is not good for small-business owners, family farmers and workers." That was the message delivered Tuesday by the Missouri Rural Crisis Center, a nonprofit corporation founded in 1985 by a group of family farmers and rural activists...

JACKSON -- The deadline for contestants to enter the Little Miss Snowflake, Little Miss Snowball, Junior Miss Christmas, Miss Christmas, and Miss Jackson pageants is approaching, said Marybeth Williams of the Jacksonian chapter of the American Business Women of America, which sponsors the pageants...

Do you ever hanker for some tabbouleh? Or get the itch to have a juicy slab of shark? Or maybe even surrender to that primal desire to eat snails? If so, there are places in Cape Girardeau to fit your fancy to a T. Take the Royal N'Orleans Restaurant at 300 Broadway for example...

Now about that snow in October! How many of you can recall a 3- to 4-inch snow in the tenth month of the year? Flurries, yes, but real snow, whitening our football games and covering autumn's flowers and gardens with a white blanket? Not in our memory...